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title: Then again when Ka-meha-meha came from Hawaii, conquered Oahu and ma… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Then again when Ka-meha-meha came from Hawaii, conquered Oahu and made Honolulu the centre of his kingdom, the old natives of the island repeated the prophecy and considered it fulfilled. Who acts: Ka, centre. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 62

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Then again when Ka-meha-meha came from Hawaii, conquered Oahu and made Honolulu the centre of his kingdom, the old natives of the island repeated the prophecy and considered it fulfilled.

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**Who acts:** Ka, centre · **What happens:** come, conquer, make, repeat, consider, fulfil · **To what, where:** Hawaii, Oahu, Honolulu, prophecy

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ka, centre), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:15:62
# text = Then again when Ka-meha-meha came from Hawaii, conquered Oahu and made Honolulu the centre of his kingdom, the old natives of the island repeated the prophecy and considered it fulfilled.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
4	Ka	Ka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	meha	meha	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
14	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	Honolulu	Honolulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Ka |  |  | Hawaii | again; then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from hawaii=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **conquer** | past |  | Oahu |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oahu=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | past |  | Honolulu |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset honolulu=Product |
| 4 | **repeat** | past | the centre of centre's kingdom | the prophecy |  |  |  | the old natives of the island *nsubj* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophecy=Eventuality |
| 5 | **consider** | past | the centre of centre's kingdom *not said here* | prophecy |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 6 | **fulfil** | participle | the centre of centre's kingdom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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